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Investigating the 'latent' deficit hypothesis: age at time of head injury, implicit and executive functions and behavioral insight.
Neuropsychologia 2010 July
This study investigated the 'latent deficit' hypothesis in two groups of head-injured patients with predominantly frontal lesions, those injured prior to steep morphological and corresponding functional maturational periods for frontal networks (28 years. The latent deficit hypothesis proposes that early injuries produce enduring cognitive deficits manifest later in the lifespan with graver consequences for behavior than adult injuries, particularly after frontal pathology (Eslinger, Grattan, Damasio & Damasio, 1992). Implicit and executive deficits both contribute to behavioral insight after frontal head injury (Barker, Andrade, Romanowski, Morton, & Wasti, 2006). On the basis of morphological and behavioral data, we hypothesized that early injury would confer greater vulnerability to impairment on tasks associated with frontal regions than later injury. Patients completed experimental tasks of implicit cognition, executive function measures and the DEX measure of behavioral insight (Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome: Wilson, Alderman, Burgess, Emslie, & Evans, 1996). The Early Injury group were more impaired on implicit cognition tasks compared to controls that Late Injury patients. There were no marked group differences on most executive function measures. Executive ability only contributed to behavioral awareness in the Early Injury Group. Findings showed that age at injury moderates the relationship between executive and implicit cognition and behavioral insight and that early injuries result in long-standing deficits to functions associated with frontal regions partially supporting the latent deficit hypothesis.
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